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Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d
7,000-Year-Old Skeletons From the ‘Green Sahara’ Reveal a Mysterious Human Lineage
Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...
ZME Science on MSN9d
DNA From 7,000-Year-Old Mummies Reveals Lost Civilization From Sahara
About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...
Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year-old Saharan mummies
Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.
Ancient DNA pulls back curtain on the Sahara Desert’s greener past
Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the ...
ScienceAlert on MSN15d
Once Lush Sahara Was Home to a Surprisingly Unique Group of Humans
Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it's hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that ...
Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage, study says
Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...